The "Leopards" were actually labelled up as "Corydoras Julii" - I've got 2 Albino in their too but cant remember the name that was on them
For some reason, moist "julii" are in fact
Corydoras trilineatus, not the actual
C.julii which is very rare. I do not know how this confusion/error began, but it is widespread. Only once or twice in my local area shops have they had the true
C. julii but whenever I see "julii" on the tank inevitably they are
C. trilineatus. And even more frustrating, once this sort of mistaken ID gets to be common as this one is, it is next to impossible to correct it. The same occurred with
C. adolfoi and
C. duplicareus; the latter is much more striking in its orange post orbital fleck and the black dorso-lateral stripe, but because no one knew what
C. duplicareus referred to, suppliers just tagged them "adolfoi" and it stuck. Here too, every so-called "adolfoi" cory I see is without question
C. duplicareus.
One expects common names to be misleading and next to useless, but scientific names delineate a species and having these erroneous is not good.
As for the albinos, there are several species now available in an albino form.
C. aeneus, C. paleatus, C. sterbai, and some others I cannot remember. I've no idea how one tells these apart, that's something I have not gone into. To be honest, I do not like albino fish. The colour form (the "albino" are natural, though they are rare in nature but this is legitimate) of these species is quite attractive and I just prefer that.
Back to the panda-like cory, as I said, this is a newly discovered species which may or may not have been described (named) yet. I know I saw them online a few weeks back, but I would never be able to track that down. The species might have a "C" number if not described yet, and assuming it is considered likely a new species. You could search through the photos of "C" numbers on Corydoras World (this is a pay site) or on Planet Catfish (free). There are a lot of them. As new creeks are explored for collecting, dozens of new species of cory are turning up. It is a vast clade of species, with nine distinct lineages which means nine different ancestors evolving into all these species.
